Where are you on the global fat scale?

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An interesting test - I come out as overweight (which I know I am) and got the message You're most like someone from Germany

Give it a try - you don't have to tell us your results :wink:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328
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Hi Alan,

Below average for my age. More like somebody from South Africa :)
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Below average for UK. :D

Above average for rest of world. :o

Most like someone from Bosnia and Herzegovina :lol:

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Below for both, like someone from Madagascar. Quite please to realise I've dropped 6 BMI points since Christmas!
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Hi Alan,
I am above average on everything for my age with a MBI of 29.
I'm afraid that how it is going to remain!
I am the same weight I was when I was 35 so it would appear I have always been disgracefully overweight. My only claim to fame is that I have a larger chest than Dolly Parton!
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Micronesia. :oops:
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I am most like someone from Senegal which is strange as according to my exerciser I am just around the top level of my ideal BMI
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Crikey, this question also appeared on another forum I frequent.
You have less body fat than 96% of males aged 45-59 in your country
and it suggests Zambia.
Of course, in my case I am guesing my weight as I don't own a set of scales and probably haven't weighed myself for a decade or more (so if I add a couple of pounds, I might be from neighbouring Mozambique).
By the way, when I estimate my weight, I do know that I have the same waist measurement as I did as a student in the late '70s.
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Today I am most like someone from Swaziland.
Next Friday, when I've had my birthday, and assuming I haven't put on any weight, I shall be like someone from the Dominican Republic! :?
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I'm a Yemeni. Below average. I liked this bit:

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 6,074,898 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population.

Now if everyone went a diet and exercise routine to achieve that how much would burning of all that fat contribute to global warming?
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Geoff wrote:Now if everyone went a diet and exercise routine to achieve that how much would burning of all that fat contribute to global warming?


Probably a great deal less than the agricultural footprint of keep them fat.
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Well, apparently I'd fit right in - in Ethiopa. BMI of 19. Well below average.

However, on another BBC site - I am l8.9 - which is counted as within normal range.

Now I am comfused.
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Most like someone from Eritrea!!!

And my BMI came out at 21, right in the middle of the "normal" range. :D
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Like someone from Brazil - BMI below UK average but above global average.

There is one consolation about the BMI which must apply to many of us gardeners: muscle is heavier than fat so, if you have strong muscles, you are likely to have a high BMI without being fat! That's my excuse, anyway.
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France - so at least I don't have to travel far to 'fit' in. BMI 25 which is well pleasing as was 29 a year or so ago.

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